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Caffeinated Fae (464 KP) rated The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Books

Jul 12, 2018

This year I have challenged myself into reading novels that are not the typical novel that I would have picked up. This was one of those novels that I just never really thought I needed to read. The characters are very developed and the main character was very realistic to me. I found myself enthralled by the characters and how it is true to high school friendships.

This book deals with some mature topics and can be a trigger for anyone who has been sexually abused. I thought that this book dealt nicely with the character's faults and his significant life problems. This was nothing like I expected. By the end of the novel I felt kind of numb and on the verge of tears.

I think this is a very powerful novel. I am glad that I gave this book a chance. I would definitely recommend this book.

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David McK (3868 KP) rated T2: Rising Storm in Books

Jan 30, 2019

Following on from the end of <i>T2: Infiltrator</i>, this novel continues the story started in that novel. The infiltrator of the previous novel may have been destroyed, but she has left behind 2 clones who continue her work, while Sarah Connor recuperates in military hospital from the wounds she received destroying it.

For the first portion of the story, then, John is out on his own with Dieter von Rossbach, rather than working with his mother. This allows the character to grow and mature somewhat, while it also provides the opportunity to bring back some other faces from the film in the Sarah Connor portion of the story, most noticeably in Dr Silbermann (the psychiatrist from T1 and T2).

The novel also takes to opportunity to further explore the paradoxical timeline of the world, with one key scene in particular towards the end showing how Skynet became sentient.

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Capital Market Integration in South Asia: Realizing the Saarc Opportunity

Sourajit Aiyer

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Capital Market Integration in South Asia: Realizing the SAARC Opportunity discusses the potential...

The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns

David Breslin

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Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has been a leading advocate of drawing as an artistic genre in its own right,...

Love at Fourteen: Vol. 1

Fuka Mizutani

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The second year of junior high, when most students are in the throes of puberty and feeling the...

AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated Midnight Sun (Twilight, #5) in Books

Aug 12, 2020

Midnight Sun (Twilight, #5)

Stephenie Meyer | 2020 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

7.2

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Twiliked it a lot

Four days after beginning this epic journey reliving my very early 20s it came to a close this evening after 759 pages...

Fans of The Twilight Saga will know this story well, but the retelling from the POV of Edward, is actually very eye opening.

Previous works by Meyer were rough around the edges, and not very polished, the language used not conveying the nature of such a largely followed saga... Midnight Sun is very well written, the language and style more mature. However I did find that there were too many pages per chapter, thus making “breaktimes” seem too far off...

I enjoyed the novel humanising the Cullen clan a little more, whilst still showing off their obvious vampiric differences! Not to mention being inside the head of someone who is typically in everyone else’s heads...